Columnists
Dr Kathryn McPherson holds the Laura Fergusson Chair of Rehabilitation at AUT University, in Auckland. Kath has a background in nursing and psychology. Her research focuses on: investigating outcomes in ways that matter most to people with chronic conditions (both conceptual and psychometric issues); improving effectiveness of rehabilitation processes such as goals and goal setting and teamwork; clinical decision making in rehabilitation; and rehabilitation workforce development. Most of her clinical and research work has been focused on neurological rehabilitation (with people after stroke or traumatic brain injury) but she has also explored such issues with people who have rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain or life threatening
Kath has been an Associate Editor with the BMJ group journal Quality and Safety in Healthcare since 2001, is on the editorial board of Disability and Rehabilitation, Clinical Rehabilitation and the International Journal of Nursing Studies, and is Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton (UK) and at King's College, London (UK). In addition she is Chair of the National Institute for Rehabilitation Reserach in NZ and the Northern Rehabilitation Consortium (two groups using a collaborative approach to the development of leading edge rehabilitation research and practice.
Philip Patston
